Leonardo Reviews On-Line

August 2009

Bound to be Extreme: Books on Climate Change, a review by George Gessert, including reviews of Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Contributions of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by Susan Solomon et al.; Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Contributions of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by Martin Parry et al.; Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change: Contributions of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by Bert Metz et al.; Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman; The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock; The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock; Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas; The Bridge at the Edge of the World by James Speth.

Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses by Jussi Parikka. Reviewed by Anthony Enns.

Forked Tongue by Revolutionary Snake Ensemble. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.

From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library by Christian Vandendorpe; Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Translators. Reviewed by Kathrine Elizabeth Anker.

The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890–1915 by Elizabeth Hutchinson. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Inside Time by Jason Young, Director. Reviewed by Nameera Ahmed.

Malls R Us by Helene Klodawsky. Reviewed by Kathryn Adams.

Tactical Media by Rita Raley. Reviewed by Geoff Cox.

Wednesday Is Indigo Blue—Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowic and David M. Eagleman. Reviewed by Florence Martellini.

What’s under Your Hat by Lola Barrera and Inaki Penafiel. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

July 2009

Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments by Eric Ames. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology by William H. Tucker. Reviewed by John Vines.

Explaining Culture Scientifically, edited by Melissa J. Brown. Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold.

53rd Art Biennale Venice, 7 June–22 November 2009. Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann.

A Guide to the Music of the 21st Century by Perfect Vacuum. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

The Inner History of Devices, edited by Sherry Turkle. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

Mind in Motion by Philippe Baylaucq, Françoise Lindeman and Véronique Maison. Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg.

On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters—The Writings of Hollis Frampton, edited by Bruce Jenkins. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Social World, edited by Charles Whitehead. Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg.

The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess by Andrei Codrescu. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.

Rediscovering Aesthetics: Transdisciplinary Voices from Art History, Philosophy, and Art Practice, edited by Francis Halsall, Julia Jansen and Tony O’Connor. Reviewed by Rob Harle.

The Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time: Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique in the 21st Century by Cynthia Ashperger. Reviewed by Franc Chamberlain.

A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day by Davin Heckman. Reviewed by Anthony Enns.

We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis by Gary Gasgarth, Director; Kevin Stocklin, Producer and Writer. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

White Heat, Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960–1980 by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert and Catherine Mason. Reviewed by Jon Bedworth.

Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths by Robin Waterfield. Reviewed by Allan Graubard.

Young Freud in Gaza by Peå Holmquist and Suzanna Khardalian, Directors. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

June 2009

Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Post-Modernity, Contemporaneity, edited by Terry Smith, Okwui Enwezor, Nancy Condee. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

Artists as Inventors—Inventors as Artists, edited by Dieter Daniel and Barbara U. Schmidt. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

Asian | American | Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970, edited by Daniell Cornell and Mark Dean Johnson. Reviewed by Aparna Sharma.

Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Pieces and Other Compositions, 2nd Ed., by Eva and Paul Badura-Skoda. Reviewed by Katharina Blassnigg.

No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment by David L. Lange and H. Jefferson Powell. Reviewed by...